Bloomberg UBS Group AG is adding tech bankers ahead of what promises to be a busy year for initial public offerings and technology banking transactions. The Zurich-based bank hired Bob Casey and Robert Jackman to join its US technology investment banking team, according to a memo sent by Jason Auerbach, UBS’s head of technology banking for the Americas. They are …

Bloomberg Federal Reserve officials say they’re willing to tolerate an overshoot of their inflation goal. If the opposite happens, the plan is less clear. Core inflation, excluding energy and food prices, is currently just shy of the central bank’s 2 percent target. Most economists and policy makers see that lasting, though there’s no guarantee: Inflation expectations have been stuck on …

ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Monday signed a volume commitment extension agreement for 2019 with the global shipping company AP Moller — Maersk to transport EGA’s aluminium to customers around the world. EGA exports its metal to customers in more than 60 countries worldwide and makes more than 11,000 shipments each year using over 100,000 containers. …